In my mind, 2016 is kind of broken into three completely separate parts. From January to April I was at university for the last semester, working at a cafe and hanging out with friends constantly. In May and June I went on an incredible whirlwind trip to eleven countries. In July I moved to Toronto […]

I grew up on British humour like Fawlty Towers. If you haven’t seen Fawlty Towers, please watch it – it is literally the funniest thing in the history of comedy. It’s a show by John Cleese (the funniest member of Monty Python) and basically all of my family’s jokes come from the show. My dad […]

I always wonder if I fall in love with certain destinations because they come early in a trip, when I’m fresh and excited, and then feel ‘meh’ about some places I hit on the end of an exhausting journey. But even if the fact that I arrived in Glasgow straight off an international flight from […]

What better way to start a trip than by climbing a mountain? The first stop on my Summer 2016 adventure was in Scotland – I landed in Glasgow and took the train straight to Pitlochry, a town I had chosen basically on the premise that there was a mountain I could climb. I didn’t have […]

One of my goals for the summer is to become more cultured. As I’ve talked about, I don’t love museums because they’re not engaging enough for me, so I tend to skip learning a lot of important knowledge about the places I’m visiting. Certain aspects of history and culture absolutely fascinate me, like Greek mythology […]

After our awesome walking tour (read about it here) during our first few hours in London, we were eager to hit a few of the sights we had seen when we visited 9 or 10 years ago. Also on the list were things we’ve been sad about missing out on for 9 or 10 years, […]

This is the last in a series of posts about my family’s England trip. Ever since my family left London, we have wanted to go back. This city seems to draw everyone in; it really has everything you could want, with the old-world charm that my love New York City is missing. We only had three days in […]

My family couldn’t go to England without hitting up Stonehenge, one of the most popular tourist attractions in the country – and we couldn’t resist throwing another henge in there! From our home in the English countryside, we drove a bit over an hour to see Avebury Stone Circle first. It’s much less frequented than Stonehenge, and […]

One of the best trips my family has taken was to England 7 or 8 years ago. For about two weeks, we roamed the English countryside and hit all the main sights before packing as much of London as we could into a few short days. Although we all wish we had more time in […]